Michael L Cortner Express Roofing

Michael L Cortner Express Roofing does one thing: strip the old roof off a house and put a new one on. The permits on file are purely residential reroofs, typically around $8,000 apiece — two of the sampled jobs sit in Methuen, on Jade St and Butternut Ln — and skylights are the only real add-on the Westford company lists alongside them. Volume is where the page gets murky. BuildZoom's headline counter says 2,044 permitted projects, while its own activity breakdown a few lines down totals 105 projects over three years and 93 roofing jobs over four. Those figures do not reconcile with each other, so the 2,044 is better read as a counter artifact than as a track record. No one has reviewed the company anywhere on file. BuildZoom states it hasn't received any reviews, which makes the 111 score printed beside the name — permit-derived, and by its own arithmetic the top 4% of 139,240 Massachusetts contractors — a ranking of paperwork rather than a verdict from any homeowner. Licensing needs a direct question rather than a directory read. BuildZoom marks Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration #185252 as a verified active licence, then prints a date issued of 16 May 2026 that comes after the April 2026 check it cites — the page contradicts itself. It also lists a second, different Massachusetts HIC number, #108126, as inactive and at one point cancelled. Two registration numbers for one roofer is the shape a directory bundle produces; only the state registry can settle which is current, and nothing here has been checked against it. For a straightforward tear-off and reroof around the Merrimack Valley, the permit trail is real and it is residential. Before any deposit, get the registration number from him directly and check it with the state, and ask for a couple of recent local addresses you can go look at — there is no written customer account here to lean on.